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Dennis Brutus, died December 26th in Cape Town, South Africa, at the age 85. Dennis was one of the National Whistleblowers Center's founding board members. He is a world-renowned poet and was always a voice of the downtrodden and dispossessed. Dennis...

A D.C. Superior Court judge recently released Donald E. Gates, who spent 28 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. The court also expunged Mr. Gates' conviction after it was determined that the government's expert,...

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued proposed amendments to its rules for handling complaints by federal employees.  The EEOC's press release identifies changes that will allow federal agencies to implement pilot programs, and that would require agencies...

Last week, Justice Joyce A. Wheeler of Maine's Androscoggin Superior Court issued an excellent decision awarding attorney fees in Maine Human Rights Commission v. Saddleback, Inc., Case No. CV-06-219 (Dec. 17, 2009, Order Regarding Attorneys Fees). The case arose when...

The African Press Agency reports that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has issued an Executive Order to protect anyone who discloses information about actions of impropriety against the public interest that is occurring, has occurred, or will occur in any public...

Sen. Al Franken's amendment to bar use of mandatory arbitration agreements by defense contractors has now passed both houses of Congress.  Franken introduced his amendment in response to Halliburton/KBR's treatment of Jamie Leigh Jones. When Jones was 19, she began...

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a settlement with the University of Phoenix over its abuses in student recruitment.  The university will pay $67.5 million, of which $19 million will go to two whistleblowers, Mary Hendow and Julie Behn. ...

U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin Scovel III issued a letter of commendation to Steve T. Mackey, a former bridge manager for Metro's Silver Line extension to Dulles Airport.  According to a story in today's Washington Post, Dulles Transit...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is now considering a proposed regulation that would expand the types of personal injury compensations that are exempt from income tax.  The proposed rule would eliminate the requirement that compensation be paid as part of...

On Monday, the District of Columbia Council approved the Whistleblower Protection Amendment Act of 2009, which strengthens the DC Whistleblower Protection Act (DC Code § 1-615.51 et seq.) and The Employees of District Contractors and Instrumentality Whistleblower Protection Act of...